Warhammer 40,000: Darktide News

Release Date Announcement

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Today we’re happy to announce that Warhammer 40,000: Darktide will be coming to PC and Xbox Series X|S on September 13th, 2022.

The aquila-eyed amongst you will note this is later than planned. To us here at Fatshark, it’s paramount that we deliver the best 4-player co-op experience possible. That’s why we’ve decided to extend production time on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide from its previously slated Spring 2022 release to September 13th, 2022.

We’ll be sharing more exciting news and information about Darktide soon. The best way to stay up to date on all things Darktide is to sign up for our newsletter and follow us on our social media. Oh, and don’t forget to add the game to your Steam wishlist!

Watch this space!

The Darktide Team

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Warhammer 40K: Darktide has been delayed to 2022

It seems to be the day to announce release delays. Warhammer 40K: Darktide will not be coming out this year as planned, Fatshark announced. The sci-fi follow-up to rat-smashing co-op game Vermintide has been delayed to spring 2022. The developer says the postponed release date reflects the difficulties it has faced while working from home over the past year.

"It's no secret that building a game during a pandemic is a challenge and we are not immune to this," Fatshark writes in a Twitter post. "We are planning to use the extra time to both focus on the level of quality at release, as well as invest in more systems to support Darktide for years to come."

Leaving the skaven-blighted fantasy lands of Vermintide, Darktide centres on a group of conscripts who have been press-ganged into rooting out a Chaos infiltration in Hive Tertium, a gargantuan hive city that sprawls across an area the size of a continent. You'll be heading in with a team to find what evils lie below the surface, working at the behest of an imperial Inquisitor who's determined to find the source of the incursion.

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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide slips into 2022

Let me tell you, 2021 doesn't currently look like a fantastic year for major game releases. Warhammer 40k: Darktide isn't helping by today announcing that its co-op cult-smashing had been delayed into spring 2022.

Warhammer 40k: Darktide finds horror and humour in humanity

There could hardly be a place in the Warhammer 40,000 universe further from the open battlefields of its tabletop game than the hive city of Tertium. While the city itself is home to billions and sprawls over a whole continent, the dark sewers and mechanical caverns beneath it are where you'll be headed in Warhammer 40k: Darktide, Fatshark's far future follow-up to the rat-smashing Vermintide games.

Author Dan Abnett has been dwelling in this world for quite some time now. He's written a frankly staggering number of novels set in the 40k universe, including several books in the Horus Heresy series, as well as the 16 novels that comprise his Gaunt's Ghosts series. He's been tapped by Fatshark and Games Workshop as a co-writer on Darktide, and he says that for him, finding the human perspective has been the key to making it a terrifying experience - but also one that leans into the inherent humour he finds in the Warhammer 40k setting.

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war is one of the most dramatic lines in any science fiction universe," Abnett tells us. "It's also really funny, because it's just so damn big. It's so grandiose and operatic that you could easily start giggling, just because of how bleakly serious and horrific everything is."